Brida

“She's ok, she's always fucking ok, with a broken smile, with broken wings.”
― Brida Reiven

“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“You look different. You look unsettling.’
‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park